Das Rheingold (Entry of the Gods into Valhalla)

[@schneisi]

The Magic and all the effects are from my Father Prof. Günther Schneider-Siemssen , a side note he was the only Set Designer who created 7 complete Ring Cycles Worldwide. 3 of them Historic ones / with Karajan, Solti, Levine . 😉💙💙

[@charlieinslidell]

Thank you to your father for having a hand in these productions of all ages and backgrounds can experience! I watched the full operas with my sister and mother who both, not being really opera buffs themselves, could appreciate the story and drama unfold with the great music, a really emotional and profound experience.

[@rdred8693]

Incredible!

[@davidsimmons654]

Awesome!

[@joelkatz8729]

Your father was a wonderfful artist. I will never forget his gorgeous Tannhauser. A classic!

[@amb1245]

💙💙💙

[@trishbenedict6588]

We saw this production in May 1989. It was our honeymoon. :) Went back again 15 years later to see it. Another 16 years later and we’re still married! And we still love Wagner.

[@Wearefree83]

For me Wagner impersonate the german people strugling across the history: a powerfull and proud nation

[@ianmangham4570]

@@Wearefree83 Now lost

[@demcadman]

Wonderful memories u must have of the Ring Cycle! Thank you for sharing.

[@SilfredoSerrano]

@@ianmangham4570 How so?

[@feinbird9161]

@Schuyler Bacn A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Schuyler Bacn

[@AllenJones-w3p]

Wotan's aria "Abendlich Strahlt Der Sonne Auge" is one of the most majestic and powerful monnologues ever written for a basso or baritone, and James Morris sings it magnificently.😮

[@canoedist]

This 1990 Ring is part of my DVD collection. Marathon watching every so often.

[@mjc5509]

WAGNER'S RING IS A LIFE CHANGING EVENT..

[@ChromaticGhoul]

I remember seeing this on tv when I was like 5 or 6, and the imagine of the Valhalla appearing from the darkness with the rainbow and that music never left my head. It was the most epic thing I ever saw and finding this again so many years before makes me feel really good.

[@thursoberwick1948]

It is so good. Hollywood has tried to copy this kind of thing in a mote commercial setting and never quite got there.

[@Krapoutchniek]

I disovered Wagner's work in my late 20. What a great experience to discover this at 5 :o

[@andreysimeonov8356]

Great production! Very close to Wagner's original stage directions, beautifully sung by some of the greatest Wagnerian singers at the time, played by one of the greatest orchestras in the world! Enough said.

[@markcraven8386]

For four nights PBS gave us the gift of this massive opera, and I recorded every second. I still have all the recordings even now. One of my prize possessions, just like my box set of the Ring opera with George Solti.

[@thursoberwick1948]

I wonder if PBS could do that now without some hamfisted political messaging.

[@markcraven8386]

@@thursoberwick1948 no way no how

[@troldhaugen]

@@thursoberwick1948 The singers would have to wear 19th-century suits and ties or military uniforms. They would have to sit in plastic chairs and drink Coca Cola. There would have to be prostitutes and sexual violence. Siegfried would be dressed like Elvis. There would be pictures of Che Guevara and Marilyn Monroe on the walls. The meaning would have something to do with postmodern critical-theory standpoint epistemology, of course.

[@Pstephen]

@@thursoberwick1948 - It's always had some hamfisted political messaging, right from the start. Wagner's politics were hardly subtle.

[@thursoberwick1948]

@@Pstephen Wagner's messages were not subtle, but they were not hamfisted either, because he was a skilled artist. Unlike some of those who adapt his work.

[@grantwareham946]

Allowing a mid-roll advert on this should be criminal.

[@grangetowncardiff6935]

Yes Yes Yes Buy nothing from these people.

[@booksteer7057]

It has been 31 years, but I still vividly remember Loki's shrug at the end. :-)

[@VallinSFAS]

Loki Shrugged!

[@acratone8300]

@@VallinSFAS Bravo!

[@AllenJones-w3p]

That's Loge, not Loki.

[@booksteer7057]

Aren't there different spellings in different languages? @@AllenJones-w3p

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

Loge is based on loki ​@@AllenJones-w3p

[@johnnytheslider]

It is my favourite of all Rings that are available to us on visual media. It is a little 'old fashioned' now but I think the world needs a Ring that looks the way Wagner intended. I like to watch different interpretations but this is the one I return to - the same way I always return to the Solti/ Decca audio recording

[@noeldunsky]

Sometimes old-fashioned is the BEST! This is how you do WAGNER!!

[@Jakegothicsnake]

I've been making plans and working on conceptual artwork in designs for the entire cast of the Ring Cycle in a more traditional, "Nordic" look. The gods will have a sort of rainbow motif to their clothing and eye colors: Donner=Red, Loge=Orange, Freia=Yellow, Froh=Green, Wotan=Blue, and Fricka=Indigo and Violet. Wotan, Brunnhilde, and the valkries will have their classic winged helmets and armor, Siegfried his wild animal loincloth, Erda and the Norns in dark veils, the giants will be primitive and Neanderthal-looking, the Rhinemaidens and Freia will all be nymph-like with flowy diaphonous gowns and flowers in their hair(water lilies for the Rhinemaidens and apple blossoms for Freia), and Alberich will look like he popped right out of Arthur Rackham's work!

[@noeldunsky]

@@Jakegothicsnake sounds interesting :)

[@Jakegothicsnake]

@@noeldunsky Oh yes! And if I ever do any drawings with backgrounds, Valhalla will look more like of those stave churches, but with a colossal mead hall, towering spires, shields for roof shingling and all in shining gold! Also, almost everybody is going to be good-looking! Fricka will look like a proper queen with a voluptuous figure, Brünnhilde and the Valkyries will be built like Amazonian super models, and Wotan and Donner will be Uber mensch with Herculean bodies and long manes and beards that’ll put any metal head to shame! Erda, and the Norns, will be pretty too, but they’ll look like total insomniacs with baggy eyelids. The only ones who won’t be very attractive are Hagen, Hunding, the Giants, and the Nibelungs.

[@noeldunsky]

@@Jakegothicsnake Sounds like a Valhala of a plan! I wish you manage to realize it one day on the grand opera stage and also hope we have the singers to match this grand scale of a production...:)

[@charlescoleman5509]

R.I.P. Christa Ludwig.

[@vriensthailand406]

That rainbow is amazing!

[@AP-lc5ys]

This is not a simple rainbow. It is the bridge between Asgaard and Midgaard, called Bifröst.

[@ariseaman390]

​@@AP-lc5ys The rainbow has a biblical reference.

[@braddavis6219]

I wish the Met had never gotten rid of this production.

[@wotan10950]

It was certainly great, and I saw it in live performances about three times. But I also liked The Machine production too. Very different, and a little gimmicky, but still very thrilling for the audience.

[@mariod7473]

@@wotan10950 I also was very impressed with Lepage's The Machine, I have it tattooed on my left arm...

[@samueljaramillo4221]

I loved the old ring, but I also like the new one.

[@michaelkerstan1328]

Richard Wagner ist für mich der Größte Tonsetzer und Dramatiker und Komponist ,aller Zeiten...... Seine Meisterwerke sind für mich das Größte..... 👍

[@kylehollenbaugh3464]

“With the creators, the reapers and the rejoicers will I associate. The rainbow (2:30) will I show them and all the stairs to the Superman. To the lone dwellers will I sing my song and to the twain dwellers and unto him who hath still ears for the unheard. Will I make thy heart heavy with my happiness. I make for my goal, I follow my course. Over the loitering and the tardy will I leap. Thus let my ongoing be their down going.“ -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[@janetmiller8723]

I went to Seattle WA to see the Cycle on 1978 or so. Absolutely enthralling and worth every penny. Experiences really do make the best memories. When the dragon first appeared in his cave I gasped! And half the audience laughed. Smiling now as I remember.

[@JuanBautista-fx3rh]

Janet Miller First you madame have a gorgeous taste, second .... Did they laugh???, for real???

[@senkawascott]

Amazingly, my wife and I were students at the UW at that time and also went to the 1978 cycle. I’ll never forget going into the Opera House on a nice summer evening and coming out hours later totally amazed that such music existed. I also remember the director of the house announcing before each evening’s performance that we weren’t to allow our seats to squeak, and if they did that we were to report them to the staff so they could be oiled before the next performance. Funny, if you think about it.

[@gabriellemus5830]

this wotan is just phenomenal ... i love its interaction with the fortress, it's like i can see all its glory and its shine

[@rosy3385]

Merveilleuse Tétralogie avec le regretté James Levine !

[@michaelhanrahanmoore1622]

The singing is absolutely brilliant from all involved. The stage set is so true to the nature of the music. I love this production very dearly

[@wandersong]

This staging is so much simpler and more powerful than more recent versions I have seen ... they are all so contrived and cringe-inducing.

[@trishbenedict6588]

Mike Zhai I miss the old productions. Now it’s all about the director. And how absurd he can be.

[@davidbastardo4154]

@@trishbenedict6588 Robert Lepage's 2011 production at the Met was very decent by today's standards. Have you seen it?

[@enriquerivera3140]

@@davidbastardo4154 Defenettly it's good, i have seen worse. But at the end this new production does not justice as Maestro Wagner music and epopey.

[@enriquerivera3140]

Even in the neew production at least the live broadcasted the orchestra performance was not so good as this one. Something happened with Mr Levine.

[@allandrummond8028]

how cringe inducing are American productions of Vagner

[@wotan10950]

This is a classic. James Morris was for me THE Wotan. And Alan Held was a brilliant Donner. It’s fun to hear snippets of Wagner themes that you find not only in The Ring, but in other operas. At the end of Froh’s phrase, “schreckloesen pfand,” it’s the same notes as Isolde’s phrase when she realizes her destiny to follow Tristan to the land of death.

[@metalheadjock3513]

I've known the music for decades and am stunned to hear such strong baritone, bass singing. I grew up with the "Wagner without Words" CD. It's amazing to hear-- for the first time-- the powerful sounds of the intended voices. I love the lower brass and strings climbing via the notes in the D-flat major chord as the Rainbow theme. Always loved the trill in the violins on the D-flat 6 with detaché employed; each note played rapidly and DETATCHED, rather than one long legato passage as is typically done. Always sounds like glitter thrown into the air. Magical, royal sounding. Is it possible to be even MORE in love with Wagner than I was in my youth?!

[@skeletalcanary7442]

Remember that this was originally performed, albeit with more rudimentary effects, over a hundred and thirty years ago. Before television made the marvelous quite ordinary. Before cinema allowed endless retakes to polish its product before being seen. What would a German of the latter 19th have felt, entering the theatre and leaving his normal life at the door, to be immersed in this total work of art unlike anything that had been achieved before?

[@joaodecarvalho7012]

Hollywood is the realization of the _gesamtkunstwerk_ Wagner foresaw. He hid the orchestra below the audience, and was also the first to put the audience in the dark. Much like cinema.

[@DGNYY27]

Well we know how some Germans came away inspired…

[@operacat1]

Beautiful when the rainbow appears!

[@allenjones3130]

James Morris's portrayal of Wotan is powerful and gut-wrenching.

[@samueljaramillo4221]

Beautiful music and singing especially live at the Met. This production is stunning. With these amazing singers. We were at the premier of The new production and it is very different but just as amazing. This is the way the Ring should be done. With this dream cast. Unlike the new horrible rings being produced now.

[@jjvaldes100]

I was looking for this for so long. Glad it was uploaded.

[@tg2832]

I read an article recently that classical music is starting to loose it's popularity with younger people, that makes me very sad. I picked up my love for this music because my dad always used to listen to it, however when I listen to it, my kids beg me to turn it off. Beautiful music like this will always have it's listeners, but it makes me sad that younger generations will miss out on it's magnificence

[@KittredgeRitter]

That is because they’re stupid.

[@amandajean7738]

Whaaat! That article is fake news! I'm 25 years old and I have fallen in love with Opera recently. I have always heard a few songs when I was a young child but never paid much attention because most of what I was exposed to was boring Musicals that I was forced to sing or watch while in school. Although, I dislike "modern opera" and "modern singing" immensely (includes the presentations of such epics) in this aspect the article is correct.

[@ariseaman390]

​@@amandajean7738 The article is correct. You have to make an effort to watch a live performance. On top of that, the attention span seems to be getting shorter. Facebook, instagram and what's up are platforms that give you gratification just about immediately.

[@andrewmoran8186]

Outstanding. Simply breathtaking!

[@carlathurisaz]

Best Rheingold ever with Morris 🥰

[@stefanufer608]

Really powerful voice that’s needed over Wagner’s orchestra

[@fulviabowerman9317]

How majestic! Fantastic music and voices!

[@alainbergeron4520]

Greatest music ever written, each time I'm listening to this masterpiece I'm shivering and shaking deep inside..simply a genius Wagner was

[@JonBarcroft]

Gunther Schneider-Siemessen was one of the greatest stage designers of the 20th century. An artist who used the music and the text to create his scenery as well as working to the director's concept. I saw and admired his work many times at Salzburg during the 1970s.

[@korbi217]

Ich könnte den Hörnern den ganzen Tag zuhören, traumhafte Motive.

[@neillist5517]

This was really moving..I just bought the DVD. So this is what Wagnerian singing is. Wow!

[@krischan67]

Zur Burg führt die Brücke. Leicht , doch fest eurem Fuß. Beschreitet kühn ihren schrecklosen Pfad!! Totally epic!

[@edwardkarlson8192]

To the castle leads the bridge, light yet sure to your foot. Easily you can tread its danger free path.

[@aaronnelson3780]

Thank you so much for uploading this!!!

[@Mousehansen]

Absolutely amazing.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

I saw this at the Met years ago. What an experience!

[@harry-g8m6m]

Without a doubt, one of the greatest scenes in the entire Richard Wagner music-drama universe! Prof. Dr. Dr. H. James Birx, New York USA

[@nunumumu09]

Thank you! My favourite bit from Das Rheingold!

[@305Lfx]

The ring cycle was played by my late dad a prolific conductor in his own right... Many times... I played seigfried funeral march at his tribute concert he taught me to conduct. I love Wagner...

[@debussy3222]

Debe ser increíble nacer en una familia de músicos.

[@305Lfx]

No dispute ​@@debussy3222

[@colettebusquet4091]

Wagner en magesté ! un des plus puissants opus qui nous emportent au delà du réel et du banal loin loin..... magique magnifique ......

[@hankmcaff9350]

that closing music in the last minute or so is awesome

[@hankmcaff9350]

I can't stop watching this!!

[@michaelhanrahanmoore1622]

This production is absolutely breath taking. The visual and audio are amazing 👏

[@markcraven8386]

I still own a complete set of this entire opera recorded on VHS. Ok, it's somewhat grainy and it's not in stereo, but it is still The Ring and probably the most popular and revered performance I'm aware of. I still watch it when the urge strikes. Without commercial interruption, thankyou PBS. I just realized my tapes are 25 years old, and my VHS is about the same age...that can't be a good thing.

[@jusepdavid6177]

se llama envejecer.🙏🇨🇴🇪🇦🇨🇴🇪🇦

[@JacobMinger]

I would love it if we could get an updated HD blu-Ray of this production. Even if it was with a different cast. I have this and one other production from Beyreut on dvd and blu-Ray. This is the one I always come back to

[@AP-dd3xp]

I think they may have retired this production...sadly. I can’t stand any other productions, chareau, kupfer, lepage, all just pretentious.

[@AndrewRudin]

Can't believe the credits leave out Christa Ludwig.

[@andrewkochis9450]

I believe this was among Christa Ludwig's final performances

[@wotan10950]

@@andrewkochis9450 The great Ludwig actually continued to sing Fricka until 1993, and Klytemnestra until 1994. She still had five years of opera performances after this Met telecast.

[@andrewkochis9450]

@@wotan10950 I saw this live and the announcement was made over the P.A. system. Maybe this was her final performance in NY. I'll bet she was wonderful as Klytemnestra.

[@LassonDavid]

Further proof that singing Fricka is often a thankless job. That the great CL made the role so much her own is a testament to the art of this great singing actress.

[@RandleMcMurphey]

Such an underrated tune!.

[@davidwright8432]

Of the whole lot, I like Loge the best. The only one who knows what's really going on, and plotting their downfall. Not that he needs much help, there! He has some wonderful moments of knowing looks directed to us.

[@maryellis8902]

Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is one of the supreme achievements of Western civilization.

[@Christian-tw7me]

Ach wie schön das waren noch Inszenierungen,davon kann man heute nur noch träumen bei dem ganzen avantgardischen Mist....

[@Altonahh10]

Wenn es doch nur avantgardistisch wäre. Es ist eigentlich immer dasselbe: Alles ist schrecklich, die Welt ist grau, alle sind neurotisch und letztlich entspricht dies grundsätzlich nur der Sichtweise von Regisseuren, die scheinbar alle mehr oder weniger ähnliche Traumata zu verarbeiten haben. Mich langweilt das auch nur noch und deshalb meide ich Oper nach über 650 Vorstellungen, die ich live erlebt habe :-)

[@Marina-dl7xt]

I'm just discovering Wagner's work, yes it is true. But I was attracted by the titles of his works. Surprisingly, I have always been interested in medieval legends, myths of different peoples, including German ones. In general, everything is mystical. I discovered that his choice was not accidental. He was very interested in those things. Thank you Omar for helping me to discover such a composer.

[@adude394]

My favorite music in the entire cycle. Just awesome stuff.

[@Wearefree83]

Wow, i got goose bumps 😲 So powerfull! This could make an army go to war happy and proud !

[@southfloridaarcheryguy114]

Unfortunately, it has. Several times. And their armies suffered the same fate as the gods.

[@pacorod.5208]

WAGNER ....Sublime Gran produccion 👍 !

[@geo3573]

Pure genius.

[@johnwarner8569]

My first opera was SFO production of Rheingold with Jmes Morris and I never saw the world the same again!

[@aljavier2927]

I saw this live. Wonderful production!!

[@craigbrush5784]

Hello from Australia. I haven't seen this before. Wow! Amazing.

[@geoffreyreeves7213]

Das ist wunderbar

[@larrycooper7261]

I managed to record this on VHS when it was on PBS back in 1989/1990, then burned it to DVD few years ago. The picture's not great but at least I have it! I've actually had "Heda Heda Hedo" as my ringtone for several years.

[@georgeberger8974]

This is superb

[@Altonahh10]

Among Wagner conductors of the last 30 years, Levine has perhaps been the most melodic of all. With rather moderate tempi, but much feeling for the colours in this inconceivably beautiful music. Rheingold is my favourite work in the Ring, perhaps because it is concentrated and has rather a lot of action, but perhaps just because I am in love with this music.

[@seroquelxl300mg]

I want this played at my funeral

[@davidwright8432]

I want it played at my resurrection!

[@chrischris4028]

When the MET was pure magic! Gone😢

[@drewprice8468]

My God, that first minute…the music, the gesture, so epic…every inch the hero…this stirs deep things.

[@jordipanadesribera6890]

GREAT PERFOMANCE, THANK YOU !

[@jorgealbertolettera4027]

Qué maravillosa puesta en escena!!!!

[@ivicaloncar2147]

Dreaming and stressing in perpetual sequences - ROCKING WAGNER!!!

[@isralopez9745]

Ridley Scott, brought me here!!

[@TheMisterfellow]

Thanks from Italy

[@rocketrob68]

Sends chills through me

[@doncimarronmx]

“...What mastered fear, my courage conceived” Valhalla

[@evavidal-w5z]

Exactly as Wagner would recognize as his Das Rheingold. The costumes the bifrost rainbow bridge that goes into Valhalla, the gods, and the singing here is top notch. James Morris, Siegfried Jerusalem, just perfect. Those were the days. Now opera looks like trash. Oh for the beauty and purity of true opera.

[@ericdew2021]

Good gracious, that is a YOUNG Jimmy Morris!

[@felixdiller]

Das Rheingold Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, April 23, 1990 Wotan:James Morris Fricka: Christa Ludwig Alberich: Ekkehard Wlaschiha Loge: Siegfried Jerusalem Erda: Birgitta Svendén Fasolt:Jan-Hendrik Rootering Fafner: Matti Salminen Freia: Mari-Anne Häggander Froh: Mark Baker Donner:Alan Held Mime: Heinz Zednik Woglinde: Kaaren Erickson Wellgunde: Diane Kesling Flosshilde: Meredith Parsons Conductor: James Levine

[@leaobrasileiro7559]

W A G N E R

[@hwh1946]

Great conducting, production, singing.

[@LydiaSeifter]

Unspeakably beautiful.

[@dorothysurry1368]

My favourite composer Wagner’s finest work.

[@displaychicken]

The virgin Eduard Hanslick vs the Chad Wagner

[@pierrejacquart3494]

Rien que par la musique on est transporté dans un autre monde.

[@mimsnshine]

Saw the last Shenk production at the met nyc ...no words to describe but pure bliss

[@joaodecarvalho7012]

Those rhinemaidens screwed up everything when they made fun of Alberich, and then they complain that the gods were degenerating.

[@hwh1946]

The world's best and hardest working orchestra. Knew lots of them when I was in Juilliard.

[@drewprice8468]

Bless their hearts

[@silvanacosimi5550]

Qualcosa di GRANDIOSOOOOOO!!!!

[@flaviusaetius8358]

This movie has a good soundtrack

[@joaodecarvalho7012]

Hollywood is Wagner's great heir. It is the realization of the _gesamtkunstwerk_ he foresaw. Wagner hid the orchestra below the audience, and was also the first to put the audience in the dark. Much like cinema.

[@andrewtomlinson18]

Simply stunning 🤩

[@joebailey9437]

experienced this brilliant production. Along with Siegfried and Die Walkurie..Incredible experience even fron the last row at the Met

[@frankcruz8863]

It’s Beautiful 11:35 True Art

[@kaiserjager2754]

I don't think that I will have in my lifetime occassion to see such a beautiful inscenation of Wagner. If you think that I am too fatalistic look around, see what bullshit is beeing put on stage and give me a good reason why things should go better... To be very honest. Considering the level of nowadays singers and directors I dont care at all if the opera ever re-open or not.

[@marquefan1]

I saw the Walkuere of that cycle and totally agree with you.

[@Krapoutchniek]

Agree. Even at Bayreuth, built for Wagner himself, they do shitty productions, only modern stuff.

[@samueljaramillo4221]

The old ring was beautiful,but I like the new ring,

[@pliniussenior1788]

Grande,storica e mitica produzione.

[@jauregi2726]

a thing of beauty 🌈

[@kemalcan4106]

Incredible! :)

[@damianryan3495]

Wonderful.

[@germanquintero10121946]

maravilloso